Antigua and Volcan Pacaya 6-24

Antigua is another beautiful town that is loaded with tourist. Here there are so many places to go and things to see one could spend a month getting through all the old buildings and hiking all the things to go see. This town is extremely old and has a lot of history. They have huge Cathedrals that are almost 500 years old and many were damaged from an earthquake in 1773. Some have been rebuilt and others left alone making you feel like your going back in time. In Antigua the power lines are buried and things seem to be more up to code then most of the other areas I had been so far. Not too far away they have a live volcano that you must see if you go to Guatemala. It’s not much of a hike compared to the other mountains that I had hiked so far, but watching the lava flow out of the mountain was amazing! It was raining and everyone was cold, but as we got close to the lava it was so hot that my poncho was starting to melt. We cooked some marshmallows on the lava and I was amazed that they would guide us right on top of lava. You could see it flowing below you and it was scary if you ask me. If one person would lose their balance they would have fell into the lava and probably died! On the way down the guide informed us that people die on that Volcano all the time.